[Bloominglabs-announce] Course on cluster system administration

[Jenett Tillotson]

So, I've been threatening to teach a course on cluster system
administration at Blabs for quite a while now, and I think I have some time
in early winter to do just that.

I'm thinking once a week for 7 weeks from 6pm to 9:30pm starting the week
of January 23rd and going through the week of March 6th. I don't have a
particular day of the week in mind (except not Wednesday), so I would pick
the date that fits the schedules of the most people. The course fees for
nearly 25 hours of class time is $50 for members and $125 for non members.

If there is enough interest, I'll write up a syllabus. We would use Linux
(of course) and the course will cover things like DNS, DHCP, LDAP, PBS (or
SLURM if there is interest), PXE, node discovery, security, and xCAT. I
think we could do this hands on by having people use 4 AG150s to set up a
management node, a login node, and a compute cluster of two nodes. If we
have enough time, we could install MPI, HPL, and benchmark our clusters.

If you are interested, please drop me a note. Thanks!

Jenett
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